Should cell phones be allowed in schools?

Summary

"Why ignore the fact that our students forever will have a smartphone or an iPad somewhere in the vicinity that they can access anything imaginable?" says Debbie Wessels, an administrator at the Salisbury School. "Everybody needs to understand that this is going to be a shift that is forever going to change the face of education."

"I can iron and watch television or cook dinner and listen to the radio. But if you're trying to do two intellectual tasks at the same time, that's simply not the way our brain operates. What happens for 99 percent of us is that instead of doing two things at once, we're switching, from this thing to that thing, from this thing to that thing, from this thing to that thing; And in the process, we're missing a lot and we're actually losing time, because every time we switch, we have to figure out what we're doing all over again."
- Levine

Works Cited

• hane, Brian. "Smart Devices Make for Smart Kids." USA TODAY. 28 Dec. 2012: A.4. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 29 May. 2014.
• Schoenberg, Nara. "Is Your Smartphone Hurting Your GPA?." Chicago Tribune. 17 Mar. 2013: 24. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 29 May. 2014.